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Hi all,
I thought it was time to do a year-end retrospective for a variety of genres for 2020. I usually say 'favorites' and not 'best' but you get the idea. I'm sure I have left some out and that's where you come in. I included my best of rock, prog, metal, pop and Brazilian following the jazz and fusion list.
JAZZ & FUSION:
Wayne Krantz - Write Out Your Head
John McLaughlin - Is That So?
Pat Metheny - From This Place
Oz Noy - Snapdragon
Brecker Brothers - Live and Unreleased
John Scofield - Swallow Tales
Chick Corea - Plays
Al Di Meola - Across the Universe: The Beatles, Vol. 2
Gergo Borlai - The Missing Song
Chris Poland - Resistance
Sebastian Cornelissen - The Holdsworth Reinterpretations
Nir Felder - II
Kurt Rosenwinkel - Angels Around
Yellowjackets & WDR Big Band - Jackets XL
L.Feliciati & Richard Hallebeek - Bumerang
Scott Jones - Fictional Characters
Tigran Hamasyan - The Call Within
Panzerballett - Planet Z
Taku Yabuki - Modern World Symphony No.3
Dan Weiss - Natural Selection
Terje Rypdal - Conspiracy
Luciana Souza WDR Big Band - Storytellers
Bill Frisell - Valentine
Dave Douglas/Matt Stevens - Dizzy Atmosphere
Avishai Cohen - Big Vicious
Maria Schneider - Data Lords
Steve Cardenas -Blue Has a Range
Django Bates - Tenacity
Keith Jarrett - Budapest Concert
Gary Husband & Markus Reuter - Music of Our Times
Gavin Harrison & Antoine Fafard - Chemical Reactions
Warleigh Manor: The Ron Mathewson Tapes Vol. 1 with Allan Holdsworth
Lyle Workman - Uncommon Measures
PROGRESSIVE ROCK & METAL:
Avatarium - An Evening with Avatarium (Live)
Wobbler - Dwellers of the Deep
Motorpyscho - The All Is One
Derek Sherinian - The Phoenix
Deep Purple - Whoosh!
Toehider - I Like It!
The Flower Kings - Islands
Magenta - Masters of Illusion
Gungfly - Alone Together
Kansas - The Absence of Presence
Elder - Omens
La Maschera di Cera - S.E.I.
Sonar / David Torn - Tranceportation Vol. 2
McStine & Minnemann - McStine & Minnemann
The Tangent - Auto Reconnaissance
Haken - Virus
Caligula's Horse - Rise Radiant
John Petrucci - Terminal Velocity
Oceans of Slumber - Oceans of Slumber
Sons of Apollo - MMXX
Ayreon - Transitus
Joe Satriani - Shapeshifting
Devin Townsend - Order of Magnitude
Unleash the Archers - Abyss
Kamelot - I Am the Empire Live
Unlucky Morpheus - Unfinished
Nightwish - Human. :||: Nature.
POWER POP/ROCK:
Drake Bell - The Lost Album
Mo Troper - Natural Beauty
Confeti de Odio - Tragedia española
Brendan Benson - Dear Life
The Struts - Strange Days
Aksak Maboul - Figures
VARIOUS:
Adriana Calcanhotto - So
Caetano Veloso & Ivan Sacerdote - Caetano Veloso & Ivan Sacerdote
Bebel Gilberto - AgoraLast edited by tribalfusion; 12-17-2020 at 02:16 AM.
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12-16-2020 02:13 PM
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12-16-2020, 03:43 PM #2DaShigsta Guest
Hi tribalfusion,
nice extensive 2020 list !
Happy to be playing on 2 of these recordings...
The Jackets XL recording made it to this week's top of the US charts:
JazzWeek | Charts | JazzWeek
Greetings from Cologne,
Paul
Originally Posted by tribalfusion
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Snarky Puppy - Live at the Royal Albert Hall
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Originally Posted by DaShigsta
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I think we can all agree that Prog Rock and metal have the coolest names...Caligula's Horse indeed!
A lot of those bands/artists would have made my best of list in 1976 or so...
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Thanks for the list of new stuff to dig into Tribalfusion! Have been relying on you for great music for many years as you know.
I am currently enjoying...
Kevin Field - Soundtology (w/Nir Felder)
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Been listening to Gergo Borlai - The Missing Song (already listed) in my new Sony XH-XB900N headphones in 24/96 lately. Absolutely stunning!
Julian Lage Trio, Amsterdam, April 17 2024
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